Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astonishment over the abrogation of the 1911 treaty (TIME, Feb. 5), Columnist Walter Lippmann took a good look at U. S. Far East policy. What he saw he viewed with alarm. A good part of the responsibility for what he saw he placed squarely on one man: Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...strict isolationist, Senator Vandenberg helped lead the Senate opposition last October to repeal of the arms embargo...
...Vandenberg resolution, Lippmann pointed out: 1) imposed a serious threat (of embargo) on Japan; 2) proposed collective action with Great Britain, France, Italy, China, The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal against Japan in the Pacific, "at the very moment when Senator Vandenberg was telling the people here that it made no vital difference to them if the Allies were defeated in Europe"; 3) put the U. S. in the position of recklessly challenging a great power...
...suggestion to the Democrats for 1940-why not Hull for President and F. D. R. for Vice President? This would avoid (not evade) the third-term difficulty, yet give the ticket the Roosevelt magic. It would also be interesting to see Mr. Roosevelt presiding over Taft, Vandenberg, Glass, etc. This plan would also release abstaining Mr. Garner for some sort of Boys' Work...
...eyebrows black as ever, his stomach for a scrap still keen, though he often repeated: "My work is done." In the Senate sat six men each of whom hopes that, this time next year, he may be President-Garner of Texas, Wheeler of Montana, Taft of Ohio, Vandenberg of Michigan, Bridges of New Hampshire, Clark of Missouri. In the House at least two men had such hopes; Bankhead of Alabama, Martin of Massachusetts...